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Show THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE 99 felfe haue knowen certaine countti¢ in fhape asin bitterneffe. Notwithftanding faith Galen , my fteepings make it fit to be eaten, It and boilings many men, who in time offamine couldnot with : of Galew Hyacintho- Ajphode is called of Dodonens Aphocelusfamina, and Afphodelus Bulbofis h lusand Afphodelus Hyacinthinus, andthatrightly 5 for thatthe roote is like the Hyacint andthe {0 likewife doththe flowerslike Afphodelus : and therefore as it doth participate of both kindes , name? in Englifh we maycall it, Bulbed Afphodill. 3 ; se The nature. e, that The round rooted Afphodill according to Galen, haththe fame temperature andvertu g qualitie. Aron, AriferumndDracontinmhave, namely, an abfterfiue and clenfin % The vertues. A Theyoong fprouts or {prings thereofis afingular medicine againft the yellow Taunders,forthat the roote is of powerto make thin and open. B Therootesheereof,as Galen writethin his booke ofthe Faculties of fimple medicines, are likein C_ yertuesto wake Robinor Aton, and Plinies cowkowpintle,and likewife to Dragons as aforefaid, Galen{aith that theathes ofthis Bulbe mixed withoile or hens greafe scureth thepillingorfalling of the haire in fpots,asAlopecia doth, ‘ OfYellow Lillies. (hap.66. %& The kindes. . : wr os — onely ofanother kind not Bulbed,whichlikewife is oftwoforts, differing | bc : y in their rootes; for in flowers they areLillies,but in rootes Afphodils participating tere of both,though necrer approchingvnto Afphodils thanLillies. 1 The Liliumnon bulbofum, yellowLillie, se The de[cription: ered ot channeled, hollow in 5] Heyellow Lillie hath very long flaggie leaues,chamf talke, two cudor baref | chemiddeft like a gutter: among the which rifeth vp.anake rie brittle armes or branches, wher| bits high; branched toward the top, with fund men white Lillie in the com ao) on doe grow many goodly flowers, like ynto thofe of paft there fucceede hbeing whic urs ow colo ing yell fhin on, ofa orti Tq fhape.& prop ie: The roote conPeon the e of ike thof es,l feed ing three-cornered husks or cods, full ofblacke fhin e of the white Afthof ng from one head, like fifterh of manyknobs or tuberous clogs, proceedi phodillot Peonie. e in e flowers be likethe whit Lilli The DayLilly hath flalks and leanes like the former. The htbe faid,which Tomit. But in briefe h mig muc ers flow ich ofwh ur: ie colo ge tawn oren > fhape,of an whichat noone is full blowen or {pred abrode, this plancbringeth foorth in the morninghis bud, a ftinking , as if it had been trodenina dunghill andthe faine dayin the ietening it is as rotten and as ow, foll not e doth his the caufe that the feed moneth cogither in foule and rainy weather : whic J could euer obferue , according to the in the other ofhiskinde, not bringing foorth anyatall that former. the e like esar old prouerbe,Soone ripe {oone rottenHis root %& Theplace. ens of herbarifts and louersoffine and Thefe Lillies do growe in my garden,and alfo in the gard s, trie r coun othe as in rare plants ;but notwildein England, %& Thetime. Ica < melo haue occafion hereafterto {peake ofcertaine Cloued orBulbed Lillies, wewil 3 91 HISTORIE OF PLANTS. ; 2 Lilium non bulbofum Phaniscnm The DayLillie. r Lillies. Thefe Lillies do ower fomnewhat before the othe se The names. liago, and alfo LiliasStrum, but moft commonly Diuers do call this kinde ofLillie zila/phodelus,Li d ow Lillie. The old herbarifts name it Herzee,an yell anci cont ifh Liti m: Engl Liliumnonbulbofa in efleth, llis, the one a fhrubor wooddie plant, as witn rvocallis ; for they haue two kindes of Hemeroca se ferteth downe the fame fhrub among Theophrastus inhis fixtbooke ofthe hiftorie of plants. Plin f . thofe plants,the leaues whereof onely do ferue for garlands perifheth at night, and buddet The other Hemerocallés which they fet downe, is a flower w hich ,or Lillie fora day DayLillie at the funne rifing,according to Arhenans,and therefore is called the % The nature. he nature is rather referred to the Afphodils than to Lillies. % The vertues, er peflarie made thereof with A piolerides faith, that the roote ftamped with honie, anda moth d. bloo r and th wate foor geth brin vp, wooll,and put aftet womens trauellin childe B [héleaues ftampedandapplied,do alay hot {wellings in the dugs , tion cies the of 1dlikewale taketh away the inflamma Cc ings. rootes andthe leaues be laid with goodfuccefle vpon burnings and{cald ¢ 5 ] Of Bulbed Flower deluce. I ee Chap.6 7: % The kindes. tuberous or downe fundryforts of Flower de-luces , with flaggie leaues and inguifhed in their vatiyng yery notablie in {undrie refpects, > which we hauedift , certaine Bulbofe or itrefteth that in like maner we{et foorth vnto your view out confideration, er de-luces , which in this place doe offer themfelues vnto as ‘olloweth. ed into one chapter re be alfo fundry7 forts,{ort ’ r % The d I Nion Flower de-luce eption. hath long narrow blades or leaues crefted, chamfered, or ftraked , openingit felfe towardthe n the backe fide, as itwere welted, below fomewhatround h ahollow trough orgutter, efemblet erbyitr round,wh it were halfe p,yet remainir vp a hollownefle it tendeth towhitenefle , and amongthefe leaues'doe.rile bortome of the () common at the top wherof growetha faire blew flower-not differing fromthe 1 ft, there com in place long thicke cods or feede veflels, wherein |